Hésiode

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani returns mainly to Hesiod's Theogony, which he presents as the account of the genesis of the divinities out of chaos1. He takes up the Ouranos episode several times: the sky does violence to the earth, Gaia has him castrated by Cronos, and the seed that falls into the waves gives the ocean from which Aphrodite is born. He cites it in a session on Racine2, in a session on amnesia3 and, in 2025, in a reading of a Rimbaud illumination devoted to "our ancient savagery"4. In the session on amnesia, he also dwells on the genealogy of the Muses: united with Zeus, Mnemosyne gives birth to them, and memory thus becomes the mother of the arts of the ear, the musikè5. He places Hesiod in archaic Greece, before classicism, and notes that little is known about this poet. He stresses that Hesiod composed his works to be recited and heard6.

1. 1#2 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...23 Oct 2020 · 6:14
2. 2Racine4 Feb 2019 · 1:22:48
3. 3#2 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...23 Oct 2020 · 30:34
4. 4NOTRE ANCIENNE SAUVAGERIE ? - Lecture à vif d'une illumination d'Arthur Rimbaud13 Jun 2025 · 29:43
5. 5#2 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...23 Oct 2020 · 22:35
6. 6Left-washing : Les wokes sont-ils les plus endormis ?17 Nov 2021 · 1:05:04

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.